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Smart Words About CinemaMon, 23 Feb 2015 15:38:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Comment on Interview: Lynn Shelton on “My Effortless Brilliance” by 52 Weeks of Directors: Lynn Shelton | Lauren Byrdhttp://parallax-view.org/2009/02/22/interview-lynn-shelton-on-my-effortless-brilliance/#comment-53337
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:38:19 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=1638#comment-53337[…] Humpday are both about men or male friendships. Shelton dismisses the categorization, although in a 2008 interview, she said that on the film festival circuit for My Effortless Brilliance, people would be at the […]
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Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:08:51 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=6305#comment-53336[…] to a feline seduction from the amber eyed Joan Bennett in Fritz Lang’s voyeuristic The Woman In The Window. Already we’re back in familiar territory industry wise, Hollywood engaging its franchise […]
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Wed, 18 Feb 2015 22:40:42 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=16081#comment-53335I was surprised to see no mention of the victories of “Rocky” in a year when “All the President’s Men,” “Taxi Driver,” “Network,” and “Bound for Glory” were also nominated for Best Picture. As good as any one those, though not nominated for that particular award, was “Seven Beauties.”

Much as with the Nobel Peace Prize, the Academy Awards lose their self-promoted purity of purpose and process under a closer scrutiny, and one must look elsewhere for a true celebration of worthy recipients for public acclaim.

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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:06:04 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=5816#comment-53332Wow! What an immeasurably in-depth, concise, insightful, thoughtful analysis and critique of Altman’s 3 WOMEN, in my own personal estimation, one of the truly `great’ motion picture experiences of the 1970’s. I was instantly hypnotized reading just the first paragraph, realizing exactly the quality of the film review this was to be… Obviously drastically different from ANY and all contemporary film criticism I am familiar with, at any rate… Vaguely reminiscent of the output of Pauline Kael, only much, much more microscopically detailed. I quite agree with a good many of the points you illustrated about Altman’s film… Starting out, I simply had no idea of how extremely long the reading of it all was going to take (not that that fact detracted in any way, shape or form from my enjoyment of the piece)! Nonetheless 3 WOMEN remains a remarkable, still-unsung, largely unloved and marvelously detailed and orchestrated motion picture experience, the likes of which I do not believe ANYBODY has ever come into contact with before or since and I am both pleased and gratified that it shall forever remain available on movie shelves, the internet or archival libraries for the potential enlightenment of future film enthusiasts both brave and open-minded enough to give this quiet, magnificent little film a try. Well done! (Was this initial review actually written way back in 1978?)
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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:18:02 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=2519#comment-53331[…] So next up we’ll move hesitantly into the jungle of the 1970’s with an early masterpiece that is incidentally screening at the BFI, a fine opportunity to add a 35mm screening to the […]
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Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:48:58 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=9502#comment-53330That IQ of 186 is probably scored with test sd 24, I think, corresponding to real IQ 155-160 (sd=15)

Child tests often scored sd=24, meaning “ratio IQ”.

Perhaps I am wrong?

]]>Comment on Moments out of Time by Parallax ViewMoments out of Time 2014 - Parallax Viewhttp://parallax-view.org/moments-out-of-time/#comment-53329
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:35:35 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?page_id=4148#comment-53329[…] We perpetrated the first “Moments Out of Time” in ecstasy over the cinematic splendors of 1971—The Conformist, The Last Picture Show, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Straw Dogs, Dirty Harry, et al. It ran in our Seattle Film Society journal Movietone News (“The trees creaking in the wind: the murder in The Conformist…“), where it became a much-anticipated annual feature ’til the journal wrapped in 1981. We’ve missed memorializing a few years since, but have enjoyed at various times the hospitality of Film Comment, American Film, Steadycam, Movies/MSN, and Cinephiled. A comprehensive “Moments” library is maintained at Parallax-View.com. […]
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Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:56:55 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=15983#comment-53325[…] Other published Top Ten Lists: Village Voice Film Poll, Keyframe Also: Best of 2014 on Blu-ray and DVD […]
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Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=15996#comment-53323[…] Danny Miller and I placed it in the top spot of our Top Ten lists. I talked to Richard Linkater about the film for Keyframe and Danny interviewed stars Ellar […]
]]>Comment on Review: The Eiger Sanction by Bill Whitehttp://parallax-view.org/2015/01/05/review-eiger-sanction/#comment-53322
Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:51:19 +0000http://parallax-view.org/?p=15742#comment-53322speaking of mountain climbing, did you know that a seattle girl by the name of georgia phipps did the stunt in the beginning of cliffhanger?
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